COUNTRY crooner Kenny Rogers secretly hid a heartbreaking battle with hepatitis C — long before the killer virus had any treatment or remedy!
Now insiders suspect the ravages of the disease — which can lead to liver failure, cirrhosis and liver cancer — have pushed him toward finally retiring.
GLOBE has learned Kenny, 79, lived with the potentially life-threatening virus for at least TWO decades before he was diagnosed in 1994.
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SOBBING KENNY ROGERS CONFRONTS GRIM DEATH!
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October 18, 2017